Ball warper



April 15 1924.

-. 1,490,184 A. E. RHOADES BALL WARPER Filed May 9, 1923 h l6 M 4 2 F g 1. 2 ,3 I. 5* if I) I4 \3 H ln venTo n,

Alonzo E. Rhoodes byMWkW Patented Apr. l5, i924.

ALOBIZO E. REOADES, 0F HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 DRAPEB COR- PORATION, 0F HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

BALL WARPER.

Application filed m 9, 1923.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALoNzo E. RHoADEs, a citizen of theUnited States, and resident of Hopedale, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improve ment in Ball Warpers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to ball warpers and has for its object to provide means to in sure that the several yarns gathered into the chain and wound into the ball shall not be intertwisted but shall retain .their substantially parallel relation.

In ball warping the warp yarns usually pass from spools mounted in a creel through a regular warping machine, thence to a balling machine located at a considerable distance from the warping machine, and thence back to and are wound open the ball mounted in the warping machine. The yarns, after passing through the warping machine where they are segregated by a comb, are gathered, usually at the balling machine, into a chain and this chain is subsequently wound on a core into a cylindrical ball all in a familiar manner. Considerable difficulty is experienced in the intertwisting of the yarns as they are gathered into the chain. The chain formation is efl'ected by causing the sheet of yarns to converge into a funnel-like device on the balling machine known as a trumpet. Not infrequently some of the yarns thus gathered into the chain in the trumpet intertwist or pass to some extent around each other so that all the yarns do not lie substantially parallel in the chain and they are consequently wound in this position into the ball. Consequently in subsequent operations where the yarns are unwound from the ball, difficulty is experienced in properly segregating them again into a sheet, such for example as required in beaming.

The present invention provides a simple and effective means by which the desired position of the yarns in the chain is assured in the balling operation.

These and other objects and features of the invention will appear more fully from the accom an in description and drawin s r and will be particularly pointed out in the claim. I i

Serial No. 637,733.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a view in side elevation of the upper portion of a warping machine embodying a preferred form of the invention with only so much thereof illustrated as is necessary to a disclosure of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view partially broken away of the construction shown in Fig. l with a sheet of yarns shown converging from the warping machine toward the trumpet;

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatical side elevation of the complete ball warper illustrating a preferred form of the invention.

As the general type of ball warper herein employed to illustrate the present invention is well known and familiar to those skilled in the art, it will only be necessary to describe those features with which the present invention is particularly concerned.

The warping machine usually comprises a frame mounted upon the floor and having the side members 1. The individual yarns 2 are usually drawn from spools mounted upon a creel, not herein shown, and pass therefrom to the warping machine and are there segregated into a flat sheet. The yarns of this sheet pass through various devices including drop wires 3 controlling a stop motion and through a comb 4 at the front of the warping machine by which they are finally segregated. From the warping machine the sheet of yarns pass tothe balling machine located a long distance in front of the warping machine. In the construction illustrated the balling machine includes a. vertical standard 5, a measuring wheel 6, and the usual trumpet 7. The sheet of yarns converge into the trumpet 7 and by it are gathered into a chain 8. This chain is reversed in direction by passing about the measuring Wheel 6 and extends back to a core 9 usually mounted at the front of the warping machine and onto which the chain is wound in the form of a cylindrical ball. This is usually accomplished by means of driven winding drums 10 having peripheral engagement with the yarn mass Wound upon the core 9. It is essential that the sheet of yarns 2, as they are gathered into the chain by means of the trumpet 7, shall not become intertwisted but, shall retain in the chain a substantially parallel relation so as readily again to be segregated when unwound from the ball in any required subsequent operations.

as nee les Heretofore it has been common to provide at r ll mounted in bearings 11 on the warp- 111 machine in "front of the comb 4. Some b s of the yarns forming the sheet supported on this roll not infrequently become intertwistsegregated and the trumpet '7 Where they are guthered into the chain.

To secure this result the usual roller, be fore referred to, or any other verticel support in front of the comb is eliminated und, in the preferred construction shown,

the vertical support for the sheet of yarn is placed directly in the rear of the comb. In the construction illiw rated supporting bar 12 is mounted in the t rrume of the warping machine directly in the rear of the comb i and on this bar the sheet of yarns restas they puss to the comb and thence to the trumpet 7. The supporting bar 12 is preferably mounted in e frame journalled at 18 in the side members 1 of the Warping machine so as to swing on u horizontal axis in the rear of the comb. The side members of this frame comprise two arms 14; and 15. As illustrated the supporting her 12 is mounted in the arm 15, and the usual lease rod 16 is mounted in the arm 14. Thus by swinging the frame on its axis 13 the sheet of yarns is readily separatedby the lease rod 16 when required.

It will thus be seen that there is no h is converge from the 1 trmnpet T there is nothing in with "he yarns Which tends to or eve spine of the 1 r i i: I thereu into the chain at tle supporting bar 12 i" e distance in the rear the yarns there is i. other words the sup iort at one end of the converging portions of the yarn is the trul'npet, and :it the other end the support is in the rear of the front face of the comb.

Having thus described the invention What is claimed as and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

A bull warper comprising a comb by \Yl'llCll a sh et of yurns ore segregated, in irunio mounted to swing on e horizontal axis in the rear of the comb, 2t supporting bur upon which the yarns rest mounted in the frame in the rear of the comb, e lease rod mounted 'n the frame in the rear of and parallel to the supporting bar, it trumpet in front of the comb into which the sheet of yarns are gathered into a chain, the said bar nd the said trumpet constituting the sole vertical supports for the sheet of yarns in their path from the bar through the comb to the trumpet whereby the yarns are thered into the chain without inter- *ing.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

ADES. 

